It is a joke I have seen people who are suffering so much and have been told they are able to work, when they can’t even put their own cloths on, I really just don’t understand why they don’t take time to see this is a person and not another peace of paper they have to sign or tick a box on, gets me so angry
Ps I hope you are well

Hi Raz1 after one assessment I had no points and on the letter I received was we understand you have a disability but you can do things with your left arm for example you can lift and move empty cardboard boxes luckily my gp went berserk and wrote them a nice letter after which I got my benefits reinstated hope you are OK
Pete

I am so sorry to hear that you have been treated in thei way, I just don’t understand none of choose to be in this way, all of us want to be able to work and to get on with our life’s, so why do those sitting in those offices ticking those box’s think that we choose one day to get up and deciywe don’t want to go to work and that we want to just sit at home and get that small amount of benefit from the government. I hope you retry to get the seen too again, as it’s not your choice not to work but your health is the reason why. I hope
You get a good result . Take care Raz

It’s so sad to hear that you still have to go though so much to prove that you are medical unable to work and to live with all these other problems which could be made simple easier by somebody saying you can have all the payments you are fully entitled to . Well I hope everything goes weans yes keep I. Touch too,

Hello again Raz1,on the 15th of February so had an appointment with my consultant ,this time my wife came with me whilst there I asked him how he come to the conclusion I had PD he said you had tremors,I said it could be the tramadol I’ve been on for years,they can give you the tremors,then he said your father had PD,then my wife said she’d known my dad for 20 years and he never got any worse and never took any PF medications ,the consultant looked a bit puzzled then did the finger thing,which I did then I told him I’d just finished decorating my kitchen,and put flotex in my bathroom and toilet he again looked puzzled,looked at his notes then said you don’t have any tremors now,so I’m going to take you off of all your PD medications now for 3 month,up to yet I still don’t have any tremors,so maybe I’ve been wrongly diagnosed,let’s hope so, what do you think?,bye.

Well it’s looks like you too have been going though so much, I now it’s so hard to find out what you may have or may not have even when the doctors we see don’t really understand or know them selfs, you see they have a tick list of symptoms which when they see us they tick off, when it comes to a few or more that’s when they start to see a diagnosis Of a illness, well PD is one of those too, but did you know not everyone who has PD gets a tremor, we may get the slowness and the memory Problems with the walking and talking and the rest of the things, so yes it’s good news that you have not yet seen the tremor happening but please also look at the other thinks, when thinks like you blinking, as people who have PD don’t blink as much as those who don’t have PD. I am no doctor but somethings yes they get it wrong but you have to try and make sure you that you too are sure of what if anything you have is or is not there. I hope this heels and please let me know. I wish you
All the luck Raz

Ok,will do,the Parkinson’s nurse phoned me the other day,I told her all about it,she said that there’s a scan that the neurologist might send me for that tell what dopamine you may have lost,My self I don’t know whether to go for it or not,has anyone else had the scan ?please let me know,bye.

Hi Wag
If you are offered the scan please take it.
It’s called a DAT scan and is very similar to a MRI except they only put your head in the scanner so no problems with feeling claustrophobic.
Also it will take up half your day.
As you have a painless injection of radiation stuff and pills to protect you from this.
Then about 3 hours later the scan itself.
Tommy

These stories paint a confusing aand sad picture of the NHS. Im from Australia. Its a bit the same. I got a PD diagnosis in 2010, one tiny tremor in one finger after a frozen shoulder. I kept working no meds. Scan found a lucuna in the exact spot to cause dopamine transit issues. But the top neuro said no. They band together. I had no real symptoms. Was an RN. Id taken out huge income protection prior, maybe intuitively Id felt something. Anyway in 2013 my wife and I decided that as my something was a bit worse and I have this label they wont budge on, well take them (the man) for all we can. That was worth a house. Do I have PD? We dont think so. Im on a pension though

Yes I have had that scan and I can say it is worth you going for it as this way you will find out something rather than nothing, I too am having the scan redone as the first on way negative , so you seee in one way it’s great to have the scan but you have to be ready that for what ever reason it comes back clear than you may (a big may ) have to repeat the scan again, well all the best and please keep us posted
Regards raz

Thanks Raz,when I see my doctor in August I will tell him I want the scan ,that’s if he offers me the chance to go for one ,good luck to you also with your next scan,hope that one comes back clear too,bye for now.